Grandparent Quotes
My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.
After a year, it was great to get out of L.A. and return to Hyde Park. Since my grandparents lived in Hyde Park, I had been coming there since I was a tyke.
My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.
I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparents did.
I wasn't really aware they were a religious organization for quite some time. But my grandparents were very devout and ran a Quaker meetinghouse and were missionaries at one point.
My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.
People should never be afraid that Foo Fighters are ever going to break up, it's like your grandparents getting divorced - it's not gonna happen.
I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.
I actually wanted to be a jazz musician first. My grandparents introduced me to Louis Armstrong. I loved Louis Armstrong so I took up the trumpet and just did that every day and practiced that.
Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.
Our parents, worse than our grandparents, gave birth to us who are worse than they, and we shall in our turn bear offspring still more evil.
My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.
The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.
He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.
Grandparents...can give the children unity of family life and some knowledge of their own family history.
We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.
No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.
My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'
No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousand shares of General Motors or General Electric.
We'll probably live 20 more years than our grandparents did. The question is, what are you going to do with those extra 20 years?
My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.
Oftentimes when kids are left with their grandparents they're not agile enough to keep up with all of the things that they're going through.
You can't prevent a possible future closeness between your upcoming child and one or more of their grandparents.
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
Younger Cuban Americans who have decided to go to the island always come back telling me "that isn't the country my grandparents have told me about."
My grandparents on my mom's side played in a mandolin orchestra. So when I hear mandolins, I automatically think of them.
I love seeing young girls and their parents and grandparents at my concerts all loving the music from Grease when I perform those songs (and yes, I do perform a bunch of them!).
Unfortunately I don't have my grandparents, but Mum and I are working quite well together. That's candid, that's frank. Your grandmother is never going to lie to you.
I am the age of the some of the grandparents that are bringing their young grandchildren to hear the music. I have been fortunate enough to see multiple generations of families come see my shows.
My grandparents came worked hard, and I believe they never regretted their decision to come here and make a new start.
In many of my books, I explore the ways in which grandparents or other older persons are shaped by the young, and the young are shaped by the old, in an evolving dance.
I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.
The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.
That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.
The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes.
When I'm at my grandparents', I know I literally have to do nothing but relax, enjoy myself, and enjoy my family members' company.
I am impressed by how much of my grandparent's life depended on continuities, contacts, connections, friendships, and blood relationships.
The day she was born, her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already.